Rossetti AO5

Question 1

Feminists Critics: Susan Gilbar

Answer 1

Rossetti was a ‘singer of renunciation’

Question 2

Simon Avery

Answer 2

“austere” word choice

plain, without comfort, strict, severe

Question 3

Simon Avery Female Figure (Love and Possession/Freedom)

Answer 3

‘the female figure is often presented as constrained.’

Question 4

Susan Gilbar

Answer 4

Rossetti created ‘effectively matriarchal and mater-lineal world’

Question 5

Lynda Palazzo 2002 Goblin Market

Answer 5

Rossetti has radically rewritten the fall of eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her.

Question 6

Betty Flowers (Love brings difficulties as well as pleasures)

Answer 6

Rossetti’s poems explore “great danger that the Victorian cult of love and marriage posed to the souls of woman.”

Question 7

Simon Avery radical views

Answer 7

“Her views may not always be ‘radical’ as such, but they are usually far from conservative and often questioning, challenging and potentially subversive”

Question 8

Arthur Symonds

Answer 8

“A power of artistic self-restraint”

Question 9

Colleen Hobbs

Answer 9

“startling revision of gender roles”

Question 10

Stuart Curran

Answer 10

“a simple and pious woman”

Question 11

Phillip Larkin, turning away from human love

Answer 11

“Rossetti’s work is unequaled for its objective expression of happiness denied”